Elevance plans second biorefinery for 2016

2:24 PM MDT | October 22, 2013 | Rebecca Coons

Elevance Renewable Sciences announced today that it has authorized the next significant stage of its second world-scale biorefinery at Natchez, MS following "robust customer activity and demand forecasts" for its Inherent-brand biobased chemicals. Elevance's first world-scale biorefinery—a $40-million,180,000 m.t./year facility at Gresik, Indonesia that is jointly owned by agribusiness giant Wilmar International—was commissioned in July. The company says it expects the Natchez site to begin operations in 2016 with capacity of approximately...